A few days ago (May 19) I attended the AI fokus conference. I attended last year as well, and I think this year’s version was improved with even better talks. It was a great venue, very well planned with good breaks for coffee and lunch and I had lots of interesting conversations with different people during the breaks. Always fun to meet people you haven’t seen in a few years. ...
Here are some blog posts and articles I thought found interesting the last month. (Books will be covered separately.) AI related Bob has written two good blog posts with scathing critique on how many organisations adopt AI and neglect solving their real issues. I found them very interesting and funny, even though I don’t agree with everything. AI won’t save your dysfunctional organisation “I recently watched a team use AI to generate a comprehensive competitive analysis. The document was impressive: well-structured, extensively detailed, professionally formatted. It was also built entirely on the team’s flawed assumptions about their market position, which the AI had helpfully elaborated into fifty pages of confident wrongness.” Ouch. I don’t fully agree with point 4, there are lots of good managers as well and in a best case scenario, they get to spend more time doing valuable things - spread knowledge, improve clarity, solving problems, coordinating, helping their teams grow and develop. ...